Spectral tuning of killer whale (Orcinus orca) rhodopsin: Evidence for positive selection and functional adaptation in a cetacean visual pigment

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 323-336

  Dungan, Sarah Z ^a   Kosyakov, Alexander ^a   Chang, Belinda S W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

absorption spectra; adaptive evolution; cetacean vision; clade model; codon substitution model; dN dS; dim light vision; evolution of protein structure and function; opsins; site directed mutagenesis; visual ecology

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN; SERINE; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CETACEA; FORAGING; HABITAT; KILLER WHALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RHODOPSIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 84964691790     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv217     Document Type: Article

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